The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-31
MISS WINsToNS LUCK.
The Romance of a Treasury Countess
and Her Boarding House Vis-a-Vls.

The Romance of a Treasury Countess
and Her Boarding House Vls-a-Vls'
Washington Special to the Chicago Null.
The young lady clerk in the Treasury
who recently made the gratifying discovery
that small farm near Birmingham, Ala,
which her family has long owned, and sup
posed to be next to worthless, is worth
enough to make her independent, is some
thing of a beauty and will well become the
station to which her wealth will entltle her.
In person she is tall and graceful. Her lea-
lures could hardly be called either reg
ular or classic, yet with her clear white ana
pink complexion, her thick, raven-black
hair, and pair of splendid black eyes, they
would certainly admit her to conspicuous
place among the faT-famed, dark-eyed
Southern beauties. She came to Washing
ton late in the 70s, in company with her
mother and an aunt, her mothers sister, her
father having died some years before.
They had some means, but not enough to
enable them to move in circle to Wnlcn
they had evidently been accustomed IN the
South. The aunt secured a place In
the Bureau of Printing and En-
craving, and later on Rose"
was given a place as a money counter in the
Office of the Treasurer Her salary was $500
year at first, but was gradually advanced
from time to time until 1T was 81, 400, when
the happy discovery was made recently that
she was heiress to a property supposed 10 be
worth nearly $2,000,00O. Her earnings, to-
gether with the income from their other
property in the South-all that was hereto
fore supposed to be valuable-enabied
| mother and daughter to live comfortably
and they always moved in the better, though
not, of course, the ultra fashionable circles
of society.
Three years ago this summer the present
| Mr. Frank Macarthur at boarding house
| on Fourteenth street, near K, in which the
| family had recently taken rooms The
house, il not in the fashionable quarter, was
| certainly well up in the realm of eminent
responsibility. There were lots of young
men and maidens in the neighborhood who
were combining their lives and fortunes
for better or for worse until death did them
part, " and perhaps this may have inclined
| them to think seriously OF future arrange
ment of the kind for themselves. or perhaps
| it may have happened just as other intense
| likings of the kind come about. Possibly
| their landlady may have taken sly inter
| est in their welfare, as Washington land
ladies frequently do Anyway it soon came
next to Miss Rose" at table, and in a short
| space of time they were much seen together
| at the theatre and at social gatherings.
Macarthur hailed from Wisconsin and
| was a son of the ex-Judge of the Supreme
| Court of the district. He had begun years
before as a clerk in the Interior Depart
meut, and had risen to be Judge of the In
| reference Division of the Patent Office, a
| very honorable position, but not very lucra-
| tive His constant study and long familiar
| ity with interferenceS did not permit him to
| allow anything to interfere with his love-
making, and it came to be generally under
| stood that he and the dark-eyed Rose were
| engaged. Time went on, but still they were
not married Nobody knew why, but the
| gossips, of whom there are legion
in the capital, specialized long and deeply as
| to the reason. Their wise conclusion in
| most instances was that both were ambi-
| tious, and for that reason were unwilling to
unite their fortunes until their prospects
could be SO shaped that they could have
home to suit them Be that as it may, they
remained single, aud shortly after Mr..
Cleveland was inaugurated young Mac
Arthur resigned, went to New York and
| formed partnership for the practice of
patent law. His abilities had already won
him recognition and were beginning to
bring him satisfactory income when the
great good fortune befell his bride ex-
pectant.
Last Saturday the following modest no
notice appeared in the Washington papers,
Miss Sarah Winston and Mr. Frank MacAr-
| thur were married yesterday afternoon at the
residence of Mr.. T. w Neill. on street north
west. The bride is a granddaughter of the late
| Gov. Winston, of Alabama and the groom is a
son of Judge Arthur Macarthur
The bride and groom have many friends
in Washington, who heartily wish them
long life and happiness, but there are doubt
less many young men hereabouts who heart
lily wish they had made better use of their
opportunities in the days when 1t wasn't
known or suspected that Rose" Winston
was heiress to the best paying land in the
State of Alabama